Market Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Market hall. 7 related planning applications.
Market Hall
- WRENN ID
- iron-beam-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- Market Hall, Market Place, OL6 6BZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 939 991
- Coordinates
- 53.48922, -2.09247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Hall in Ashton-under-Lyne was rebuilt in 1867 and enlarged in 1881 and 1930. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a large single-storey rectangular plan, with the main façade facing the market square. The building has a total of 19 bays, including a central tower, a projecting plinth, an impost band, and a modillion eaves cornice with a blocking course. The façade includes an arcade of semi-circular lights set within arched recesses, which have keystones below recessed brick panels. Bays 8 and 14 are slightly advanced and feature entrance doors beneath the arches. The tower rises two stages above the parapet and displays a coat of arms, a datestone from 1867, small arched lights, polychromatic brick decoration, clock faces within keyed oculi, and a balustered parapet above a cornice. The left bays and left return were added in 1881, while the extreme right bays, the right return, and the rear were added in 1930. The roof structure is made of cast and wrought iron on cast-iron columns.
Local climate
Market Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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